Niurka Arriete Hernández, Director of Radio Frequencies of the Ministry of Communications and Coordinator of the Special Section of the 4th National Workshop on Radio Spectrum Management — a key event of the 20th International Convention and Fair Informática 2026 — offers details on this topic in the morning news shoe Tiempo Real.

“As the name says, it is a national workshop. So, people might ask, ‘Why is there a national workshop within an international event?’. Well, because of the importance of the radio spectrum, we were invited to participate with this special section, where the topics, of course, will revolve around its management.  

The radio spectrum is an invisible natural resource, part of the infrastructure and one of the axes of the digital transformation; that's why it could not be left out of Informática.

It is still a national workshop. The topics will address how the spectrum is managed in Cuba. This management is very broad: it includes the regulation (what can be done or not, which bands are authorized), the studies to free frequencies as regulated, the allocations and permits for natural and legal persons to import equipment according to the authorized bands and services.

In addition, there are teams dedicated to monitoring, controlling and supervising the assigned spectrum: those who do quality control, detect illegalities and, closing the cycle, the inspectors who apply the law when irregularities are identified. We will talk about all this.

These and other topics will be present, such as the transition from analog to digital television, the digital transformation from the spectrum (wireless smart cities, device interconnection), telemedicine (which depends on the spectrum, although optical fiber also exists for long distances), and precision agriculture, with sensors interconnected by systems such as LoRa, which collect and transmit data over long distances.

We will also discuss topics related to the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2027: the ‘Olympics’ of the sector, which require intense preparation, as in the Olympic Games, for the upcoming challenges”.

-  Who are you calling, who is going to participate?

“As a workshop, the main objective is to exchange experiences..... there are the business people, the scholars are invited because all the universities participate, the technological universities, the universities of Villa Clara, Santiago de Cuba, Pinar de Río, and of course the CUJAE participate and the students too.
In the Third Workshop this year we managed to invite 100 students from the telecommunications major from both the CUJAE and the Osvaldo Herrera Technological Institute, because it is very important that the youth understands from the beginning what the radio spectrum is because sometimes they do not understand it and they deviate a little from the topics, from the theses. 
There are also the defense agencies for which the whole issue of the radio spectrum is very important and of course the entire communications sector, I say sector that is much broader than system because they are not only our business groups, our companies, but everyone who has to do with communications throughout the country”.

- How can people participate? How to sign up for it?

“You can enter the website https://www.informaticahabana.cu , go to the special session and there you will see the emails through which you can communicate. This year we are going to open it a little more, but we have a group of people who always collaborate with us who are part of research centers of the FAR (Revolutionary Armed Forces), of the MININT (Ministry of Internal Affairs), a research center that has now become a development unit of ETECSA, LACETEL and of course the companies Radio Cuba, Movitel, and ETECSA. 
Through the emails that can be found there, mine as coordinator and even the Vice Minister's, Ana Julia, who is the president of the event you can communicate with us, make your proposals and we in the interest of what we want to convey, which is that exchange of experiences is that we approve who are those who are going to be with a group of people who accompany us”.

 - Are there any important dates perhaps for the closing of the call or other actions that you are going to be taking before the event? 

“In November like all the events of the convention we close the possibility of sending the works, the papers, the possible conferences, maybe there is some further margin but in November we should close”.

- Which countries and delegates have already confirmed?

“We have interests because we just came back from the radiocommunications seminar that the ITU hosted for Region 2 in Honduras and of course all the countries of the region were there and we seized the opportunity and made the invitation to the event, and since they were radio people there, they were very interested in the special session.
We have interests of COMTELCA Honduras, COMTELCA is the Technical Telecommunications Commission of Central America and the Caribbean and also the colleagues and specialists of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, of the Technical Telecommunications Commission, the Technical Telecommunications Union of the Caribbean, we have the colleagues of INDOTEL from Santo Domingo.... so far they are all interested and the issues of digital television attracts a lot of people, the issues on the agenda of the world radiocommunication conference also attracts many, we have made invitations to the colleagues of the ANE from Colombia whom we admire a lot and we are waiting”.

“This is an event that undoubtedly contributes to the digital transformation of the nation and you are present as part of that digital transformation”.